Thursday, September 25, 2008

Sale time!

This Saturday is the semiannual Mother of Twins clothing and equipment sale for my club. It's a fun event where a lot of the moms from our club get together and sell massive quantities of stuff. I love it for a number of reasons:

I get great deals on clothes and toys for my boys

I sell some of my stuff (and that money is going right into our "trip" fund so that one day, a few years from now, we'll be able to drive cross-country).

I clean out my over-filled basement of some of the accumulated stuff from the past three years.

I help raise money for my twins club. The sales are our major fundraiser (since the club takes a cut of all the sales), and help fund a lot of our activities, like an annual scholarship and a Halloween party. It's such a fun and easy way to help our club.

I see a lot of my friends and acquaintances.

However, it's also a massive amount of work, requiring hours of tagging clothes, plus spending Friday evening and most of the day Saturday setting up, working the sale, and cleaning up. But I'm looking forward to it. Hey, if I'm lucky, I'll get to rearrange books and have another "best day ever". Wish me luck!

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Melodie: That would be kind of cool, if John Travolta bought all my bread. Of course, I'd probably be pretty annoyed at him then, so perhaps not.

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I just left a comment over there. A very litle-known fact about me was that my first blog was a book blog. I called it Books and Books and Books. It was all book reviews.

Then I got pregnant two weeks later and Laura's Mommy Journal was born. I couldn't read while pregnant bc I got queasy and it was the worst punishment of pregnancy. I could take the vomiting and everything else but NO BOOKS!!!!

Yay for the sale, I'll see you there! This is the first time I'm a seller, so it should be interesting. I do find it hard to shop in that situation, so I have to go in with a list. At the moment, it's a pretty short list, thankfully. :-)

I am getting ready to take my daughters clothes up to our 2-times a year childrens consignment shop. I agree that selling the old stuff is great because you make money off of your stuff and get great deals on "new" stuff!

About Me

I'm a stay at home mom to twin boys who were born in 2005, and a new baby brother born in 2009. We have adventures, we laugh, we cry. I write it all down. Come, enter all ye who dare! But just don't expect this to be an "all parenting all the time" kind of blog. I'll wax poetic about books, or cook up a post about food, or just blurt out some random randomness. Wear a helmet so you don't get hurt!

What I've been reading

Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States by Bill Bryson. You know how some authors are just a perfect fit for you? That's Bryson for me. I love his writing, and have a weird affection for etymology, so this was a match made in heaven. Loved it!

Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck. What an interesting snapshot of America in the early 60s. Some parts were really compelling, a good read.

John Dies at the End by David Wong. Weird. Not bad, but weird.

Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh. I love her blog--at least half of this book is directly reprinted from the blog so I'd already read it. She touches on depression (like on her blog), which provides that strange funny/depressing dichotomy.

Stranger than Fiction by Chuck Palahniuk. Collection of short autobiographical and non-fiction stuff. Great...enjoyed more than some of his novels!

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. Really enjoyable book! Part dystopian, part techno thriller, with some lite cyberpunk tossed in along with heavy doses of geek culture and 80's memorabilia. Definitely worth a read!

Tweak: Growing Up On Methamphetamines by Nic Sheff. I read Beautiful Boy, the memoir by Nic Sheff's father about his meth addiction last month. To say a drug addict makes a questionably believable narrator is something of an understatement, but this was still a really interesting story. Would like to read his followup memoir.

My Beloved Brotosaurus: On the Road with Old Bones, New Science, and Our Favorite Dinosaurs by Brian Switek. Interesting science book by a paleontologist. Funny chapter on dinosaur reproduction theories. Overall interesting, though sometimes the author's stories make him sound entirely incapable of advance planning. In a fun way.

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn. Enjoyed the first half of the book, but thought it was going to be a straightforward "woman in peril" kind of book. Loved when the second part started. Ended up really enjoying this one.

Vurt by Jeff Noon. This book was weird. Not bad, just out there. I'm not a huge fan of cyberpunk, which this is, but this was okay. Would certainly recommend to fans of the genre.